BAILEY, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pa., March 18, 1810;
attended the common schools;
learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville;
served in the State house of representatives in 1840;
member of the State senate in 1843;
moved to Perry County in 1845;
again a member of the State senate 1851-1853;
State treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1854;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1860;
elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865);
member of the State constitutional convention in 1872;
died at Bailey Station, Perry County, Pa., on August 26, 1885;
interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield, Pa.